"Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature"Crossroads. A Conference in Honor of Rüdiger Kunow. Potsdam University, October 28-29, 2011.

"Sages Instead of Politicians: American Indian Elders Between Tradition and Other-Direction."Materialism of the Encounter. The Destiny of Critique in a Post-Human Age. International Colloquium.Potsdam University, June 3-4, 2011.

"Dissertation Project Presentation: Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature and Culture."Potsdam Forum for Cultural Studies.Potsdam University, February 18, 2011.

"Aging Relations. Native American Discourses of Aging between Communal and Institutional Care"
American Economies. Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies. Berlin, May 27-30, 2010.

"Film and Television Analysis"
High School Workshop, Berlin, March 24, 2010

"Cultural Memory and Age. Janet Campbell Hale's 'Claire' and the Survival of Cultural Identity"
Whose Culture, Whose Memory? The Rhetoric of Group Identity in a Transatlantic Context.,Doctoral Workshop at Potsdam University, February 12, 2010

"Exiled on their Own Land: American Indian History in Literature" (with Allison Davis-White Eyes)
Revisiting Indian Nations. Transatlantic and Transcultural Perspectives in Native American History.
Annual Conference of the Historians in the German Association for American Studies. Tutzing, February 6-8, 2009
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"Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, An Indian?Reflections on (Native) American Identity in Sherman Alexie's Writings"
Post-Graduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies, Münster, Oct 31-Nov 2, 2008
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"The Reservation Writes Back: Contemporary (Native) Americans in Sherman Alexie's Writings"
Divided We Stand - United We Fall. Perspectives on Inclusions and Exclusions in America.
Annual Conference of the Graduate School of North American Studies. Free University Berlin, June 27-28, 2008

"Communicating Democracy:Entering the American Republic Through The West Wing or the Commander in Chief" (with Antje Dallmann)The American Presidency and Political Leadership.
Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies. Heidelberg, May 15-18, 2008.
<> see also: similar paper in Picturing America